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PUR CUTTING GUIDE.

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iINrTED STATES PATENT QEETCE.

ADOL'PH LISSNER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

EUR-CUTTING GUIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,867, dated January 2, 1883,

' Application filed November 6, 1882. (No model.)

fl'o all whom it may concern Be itknown that I, ADOLPH LISSNER, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Fur-Cutting Guide, ot' which the following is a specification, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in fur-cutting guides which are intended to cut strips of fur for use as trimmings; and the objects of my invention are, first, to provide a firm ruler or guide for the knife without previously marking the fur, as well for narrow strips as for wide strips; second, to provide a means b v which the rulers or guides, after being used, can all be simultaneously restored to their normal positions, ready for use again. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figurelis a top view of the apparatus with the guides in their normal positions, ready for use. Fig. 2 is a part ot' the saine, with the guides turned over on their other sides after having been used. Fig. 3 isa vertical section of the apparatus with the guides in their normal positions and the levers underneath in their normal positions. Fig. 4 is a vertical section, showing in detail the operation of the guides and levers ofthe apparatus; and Fig. 5 is a vertical section of the slide and clamp employed to keep the apparatus in place.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Ais a square frame, made of tin or other thin metal strengthened on its outer sides by wire encircled by the outer edges ot' the frame. This trame is made of any desired size, and the inside space is also a matter ofconvenience.

B is one ot' a number of guides coveringthe entire top of the frame A at even distances."

These guides are made of the same material as that ot' the frame. The guide B is secured to the frame A by a hinge, a, fastened to the guide and frame at the upper and lower sides, so that the guide is left free to turn and lie either with the upper lace of the guide Haton the frame A, as shown in Fig. l, or with the lower face l of the guide fiat on the frame, asshown in Fig. 2. The guide B is strengthened by turning a part ot' its edges b and c on itself.

b is the edge ot' the guide against which the knife is drawn in cutting. When the guides are in position for use the edge b rests on the pelt of the fur underneath and serves to hold the fur in place while cutting.

g is one of a number of Hat-headed wires secured to the under and lower side ot' the frame A, and parallel with its face. These wires are placed, at even distances, directly underneath the hinges a., and extend into the space within the frame A. Upon this extension ofthe wire g is pivoted a lever, d, so that it inay move freely and perpendicularly between the inner edge of the frame Aand the head of the wire g. This lever is made ofthe same thin material as that of the frame, and isin the form'ot' a contracted cone, and is normally placed with its shortest side on a line with the face of the frame A.

c is a tlat bar, to which are secured similar flat-headed wiresyg', and at like distances to the wires, g. The lever d is likewise pivoted at the extreme end ot' the longest arm to the `wire g', so that when the bar cis moved laterally to one side, the free llever-arm will rise above the face ot' the frame A and raise the used guides B, lying upon it., to a perpendicular position, as shown by dotted line 2 in Fig. 4. The barcis provided with a handle, h, to facilitate the grasp, and a contractile spring, S, secured to the har, and-a projectloinf, which has the tendency to draw the bar c toward it, and so keep the lifting-edges of the levers d down on a level with the face of the frame A.

E is one-half of a hinge, and is adapted to iit into the depression made t'orit in the clamp C. The other halt' of the hinge E is secured to the underside of the frame A, so as to allow the unsecured arm of the hinge free play up and down. The clamp C is adapted to be secured to a cutting-board b v screws, and is hinge. eight ormore, with guidesB ofdil'erent widths. The clamp C is fastened to the cutting-hoard, so that the frame A, when fastened in the provided with a head-screw, D, to secure the These apparatuses come in sets ot' clamp C, will extend below the board a sufficient distance to give free play to the levers d and bar c.

To operate this apparatus I take the one with the Width of guide required, slide the hinge E into the depression in the clamp G, turn the head-screw D and secure the apparatus firmly to the board, lit't the frame on its hingeE, place underneath the fur to be out, pelt upward, and then shut down the frame. Then I arrange the guides B as in Fig. 1 by pulling the handle L. I next take a fur-cutting knife, grasp the uncut edge ot' the fur with my left hand, and run the knife through the entire length of the fur, steadying the knife againstI the edge b ot' the guide, and throw the stripof fursocutaside. Then 1 raise the ,fluide so used and turn 1lJ over on its other lside and out ot' the way ot' a new strip to be cnt, and proceed as before, continuing the operation until the fur is exhausted. I then replace the guides by pulling the handle L, which brings all the guides into a perpendicular position, and then,bv runningr a lingeracross them,

lay them all on their right sides, ready for use again.

Having fully described my invention, what I desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent isl. In a fureutting,r guide, the combination of 3o the frame A with the hinged guide B and its turned edges b and c, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, in a I'urcutting guide, of the movable guides B with the levers r1, Wires and g', and bar e, substantially as described, l'or the purposes specified.

3. rIhe combination, in a fur-cutting* guide, ot' the frame A with the hinge E and clamp l and D, substantially as described.

4. In a fur'eutting guide, the combination of the frame A, guides 1i, hinges a, turned edges b and c, bar e, wires g and g, levers (I, and spring S, substantially as described, and for the purposes specified.

ADOLPH LISSNER.

Witnesses:

C. Spino, ARTHUR J. WESTERMAYR. 

